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Products in spin$^c$-cobordism

Algebraic Topology 2025-10-28 v2

Abstract

We calculate the mod 22 spinc^c-cobordism ring up to uniform FF-isomorphism (i.e., inseparable isogeny). As a consequence we get the prime ideal spectrum of the mod 22 spinc^c-cobordism ring. We also calculate the mod 22 spinc^c-cobordism ring ``on the nose'' in degrees 33\leq 33. We construct an infinitely generated nonunital subring of the 22-torsion in the spinc^c-cobordism ring. We use our calculations of product structure in the spin and spinc^c cobordism rings to give an explicit example, up to cobordism, of a compact 2424-dimensional spin manifold which is not cobordant to a sum of squares, which was asked about in a 1965 question of Milnor.

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@article{arxiv.2407.10045,
  title  = {Products in spin$^c$-cobordism},
  author = {Hassan Abdallah and Andrew Salch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10045},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version incorporating referee comments. Published in International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN)

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